Why does Gnome-shell replace the current gnome-panel.

2010-03-23 Thread Apoorva Sharma
Right now, gnome-panel is an extremely customizable and useful application. Thanks to the many applets that have been written, it is getting better every month. Furthermore, many of the improvements that are being made to linux distributions are being made to the panel (i.e. the MeMenu in ubuntu

Re: Why does Gnome-shell replace the current gnome-panel.

2010-03-23 Thread Ryan Peters
On 03/23/2010 11:22 AM, Apoorva Sharma wrote: Right now, gnome-panel is an extremely customizable and useful application. Thanks to the many applets that have been written, it is getting better every month. Furthermore, many of the improvements that are being made to linux distributions are

Re: Why does Gnome-shell replace the current gnome-panel.

2010-03-23 Thread Bob Hazard
People have long complained about the way the panel works behind the scenes. I believe some of the code is messy to keep it compatible with technology from the old gnome 1.x days. Even without gnome shell the whole thing was due for a rewrite anyway. On 23 March 2010 16:22, Apoorva Sharma